Which system won this generation to you?

[emigre]

Xenoblade was terribly overhyped and really isn't deserving of the fanfare it received

/JRPG enthusiast.

Thought you never should judge a JRPG from an hour. You need to give it a few hours before it can really get started. Unless its Dragon Quest cos y'know Dragon Quest is shit.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Xenoblade was terribly overhyped and really isn't deserving of the fanfare it received

/JRPG enthusiast.

Thought you never should judge a JRPG from an hour. You need to give it a few hours before it can really get started. Unless its Dragon Quest cos y'know Dragon Quest is shit.

Or most JRPGs could just be shit if they take forever to become actually interesting. Like I don't expect explosions and everything within the first hour but I expect it to be more than boring quests and dull combat. They could establish a universe worth caring about that isn't full of generic JRPG protagonists with generic JRPG settings.

 

[Deleted member 158512]

They all lost to me because I didn't buy any of them.

 

[emigre]

Or most JRPGs could just be shit if they take forever to become actually interesting. Like I don't expect explosions and everything within the first hour but I expect it to be more than boring quests and dull combat. They could establish a universe worth caring about that isn't full of generic JRPG protagonists with generic JRPG settings.

Just Another Gamer is going to come here and defend the honour of the Japanese Role Playing Game.

In all seriousness, some JRPGs are super shit whilst some are very good. Saying that I do enjoy the cliches, its like watching a shit horror movie.

 

[suppow]

I shouldn't have to wade through hours of shit to realize it's good. If a game is boring off the bat then I just won't play it. Games are meant to be fun, it shouldn't take more than an hour for me to be interested. If they don't do that then it's poor game design, end of discussion.

The combat was rather bland, story seemed full of interesting characters and plots, art was generic, and I saw no reason to play it over a good game.

Or most JRPGs could just be shit if they take forever to become actually interesting. Like I don't expect explosions and everything within the first hour but I expect it to be more than boring quests and dull combat. They could establish a universe worth caring about that isn't full of generic JRPG protagonists with generic JRPG settings.

agreed, a good game should be able to catch you from the start, not by being flashy, but by being good.
and games that make you sit through walls of text dialogue between characters that you dont care about or dont even know and say nothing interesting (specially to advance the story), with the pretext of "wait for it, it's a good game", is in fact not a good game.

if it is a good game, it'll make you care about the story by just playing it, and it will make you seek out more dialogue and more background story/info on your own, by just being interesting, not by making you sit thru walls of text.

specially when you cant skip it. bad design choice.

 

[kylster]

Overall the Wii won me over cause of the vast majority of titles unavailble on the other consoles; I'm sure somebody has mentioned that most xb360 games can be bought for pc or also available on ps3 albeit there are some uncommonly exclusive title for ps3 also. Also Wii games seemed to be the most hacked or giving that extra life to say for over-all-play-ability.

Let us take a look at some of the funner games for Wii:

1. FF Crystal Bearers
2. LoZ Twilight Princess
3. LoZ Skyward Sword
4. Tales of Symphia
5. Punch Out
6. NSMB + All the hacked community copies
7. Metroid Prime
8. Metroid Other M

I'm sure you all can think of more

 

[Fazermint]

It's funny how people can judge games they have not fucking played.

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

They all lost to me because I didn't buy any of them.

Yeah same. There's absolutely no reason to buy any of this generation's consoles as the next generation will be backwards compatible with them. I always skip a generation of consoles

 

[Gahars]

Yeah same. There's absolutely no reason to buy any of this generation's consoles as the next generation will be backwards compatible with them. I always skip a generation of consoles

Looking at the weak backwards compatibility offered by the 360 and PS3, that's not exactly a given thing.

Plus, of all the generations to skip, it seems like you've picked the longest one. 7 years and counting... that's a lot of great gaming experiences to catch up on.

 

[emigre]

It's funny how people can judge games they have not fucking played.

Welcome to the Internet. Fanboy dethrones logic in this sick strange yet highly erotic world.

1. FF Crystal Bearers
2. Tales of Symphia

Horribly average games. For the latter, I'm being fucking kind beyond belief.

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

Looking at the weak backwards compatibility offered by the 360 and PS3, that's not exactly a given thing.

Plus, of all the generations to skip, it seems like you've picked the longest one. 7 years and counting... that's a lot of great gaming experiences to catch up on.

I don't need to play every game ever released in the last 7 years. Just the good ones. There are tonnes of reviews now and they're all dirt cheap second hand.

 

[JulietStMoon]

I shouldn't have to wade through hours of shit to realize it's good. If a game is boring off the bat then I just won't play it. Games are meant to be fun, it shouldn't take more than an hour for me to be interested. If they don't do that then it's poor game design, end of discussion.

The game in question aside (as I haven't played Xenoblade), I agree with you. No game should take a ridiculously long time to interest you. In my opinion, Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga all stand out as examples of great JRPGs with excellent beginnings that kept you engaged from the start. It doesn't even have to be action-packed: Chrono Trigger had very little action for the first 45-60 minutes, but it kept you engaged by keeping you actively involved in moving events forward and telling a refreshing story.

This is the reason I dropped Borderlands after about 90 minutes of playing it. The characters were colorful and entertaining and the graphics were beautiful, but I was bored to death and really didn't feel like wading through who knows how much more time of tutorials and fetch quests before getting to the main game. I'll make exceptions for games in series that I already really like and force myself to trudge through long beginnings (I'm looking at you, Skyward Sword), but aside from that, I generally won't tolerate it.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

It's funny how people can judge games they have not fucking played.

If this is relating to my points then the whole point I have been making is that I did play the game, found it to be boring within an hour, and decided to not flog myself with a 50+ hour adventure through mediocrity just to say "I have played this game thoroughly and I can say it's bad."

 

[Gahars]

I don't need to play every game ever released in the last 7 years. Just the good ones. There are tonnes of reviews now and they're all dirt cheap second hand.

As I said, that still leaves a lot of great gaming experiences to catch up with on top of whatever else comes out.

 

[Chary]

Honestly, I say the Wii. Any game that I like on my 360 can easily be played on Steam/PC. Not to mention how great the First Party Nintendo titles were, and a few third party games (Which you can't get on any other system). Great console overall.

 

[JulietStMoon]

It's funny how people can judge games they have not fucking played.

How do you know the people in question haven't played said games?

 

[kylster]

Welcome to the Internet. Fanboy dethrones logic in this sick strange yet highly erotic world.

Horribly average games. For the latter, I'm being fucking kind beyond belief.

I really enjoyed that game but you may refer to me as a Final Fantasy Fanboy lol but I'm not quite that pathetic lol

 

[emigre]

Have I mentioned Xenoblade is hilariously overrated?

 

[emigre]

I really enjoyed that game but you may refer to me as a Final Fantasy Fanboy lol but I'm not quite that pathetic lol

Great you enjoyed it but for the wider "these are the funnest/best/bestest/great games console debate," they fall short.

 

[suppow]

In my opinion, Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga all stand out as examples of great JRPGs with excellent beginnings that kept you engaged from the start.

sure, M&L is made by Intelligent Systems, but i dont think it'd qualify as a JRPG.
=P